AMSC gets power-grid order from China

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff

American Superconductor Corp., a Devens-based energy technologies company that refers to itself as AMSC, said that it has received its second order for a D-VAR system to meet dynamic reactive compensation requirements for a power grid in China.

"China National Machinery Industry Complete Engineering Corp. (CMCEC) will deploy the D-VAR system to meet local grid interconnection requirements for Phase I of the Guanting Wind Farm, located in the Beijing area," the company said in a press release.

The release did not include financial details of the order.